Hello everyone, I'm actually an accord guy, but I am doing this to help my friend.
Last weekend, me and him went look at a 96 civic coupe HX auto with 118k miles, with the 1.6L engine. There was a weird noise when shifting from D to R or R to D. The current owner told me that that was normal because the HX has a completely different transmission from other civics.... he said is a "rubber band" tranny.... and I never heard of that before.
Anyway, I did a search and found nothing about hx models... so can someone give me the "goods" and "lows" of this civic model.
Thanks in advance!!!

 

HX bumpooooo.....

 

It is a rubber band tranny. It's a CVT.

 

HX means it has a cvt, "continuously variable transmission" instead of a conventional transmission with gears.

http://auto.howstuffworks.com/cvt.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C...ssion

the car never shifts, rather, it adjusts the transmission continuously to respond to cruising speed, demands for power, fuel economy, etc.

 

For searching purposes, this the the d16y5 motor.

-Shane

 

umm goods it comes with HX wheels haha

 

ok, but can someone tell me a little bit about the car and the engine!

 

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What is it you want to know? It's got a true wideband O2 sensor which costs a left nut to replace. It has VTEC-E (D16Y5), a CVT and gets good gas mileage.

 

Thanks.... that is the type of info i'm looking for.


Any common problems with that kind of car? or tranny?

 

I have a 96 hx w/ CVT. the tranny's in these cars are known to go bad. Many of them shudder when moving from a dead stop. Mine has been doing it since I bought it, Dealer said it was the "start clutch" part was $300, labor was $500. So I bought everything to convert it to manual